Hosted By Dr. David Derose

Title: “Native Food Sovereignty” Guests: Nora Frank-Buckner, MPH (Nez Perce) and Jenine Dankovchik Description: Gain insights into Native food sovereignty from members of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health board. You will enjoy their insights into community gardening, how to get location-specific agricultural guidance, and more. For More Information: NFrank@NPAIHB.org; www.NPAIHB.org; tribalepicenter.org

Title: “Protecting Native Children on Our Roads” Guests: Tam Lutz MPH, MHA (Lummi), and Candice Jimenez, MPH (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs) Description: Historically, Native children and youth have fared far worse in motor vehicle accidents than children from majority populations. Learn how the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board has been working with tribes to help address this disparity. For more information: www.NativeCARS.org; 503-228-4185

Title: “Help for Coronavirus and Other Chronic Diseases” Guest: N/A Description: Coronavirus continues to grab daily headlines. However, there is more good news about how to safeguard yourself and your family. Dr. DeRose shares insights that few are covering. Today’s potentially life-changing show also features a free one-month program calculated to help you decrease your dependence on medications for diabetes and high blood pressure at the same time you enhance your immune system. For further information: www.compasshealth.net

Title: “Lifestyle Programming: It Takes a Team” Guests: Jackie Jewel Esposo, Honora Kalama, and Tracy Ann Hao Description: Intensive lifestyle change programs have power to change lives, but it takes a multidisciplinary team to have the greatest effect. This week’s show, recorded on-site from Molokai’s Keawanui location especially highlights the power of music therapy and group support when it comes to truly transformational programming. For further information: mercyritte@gmail.com

Title: "An Interface Between Indigenous Practices and High-Tech Medicine" Guests: Jesseca Kalawe-Oswald, Wholistic Nutritional Counsellor and CHW; Seth Baum, MD; Laureen Irvine, and Becky Takashima Description: Today’s show features Seth Baum, MD, whose cutting-edge insights on cardiovascular medication therapies are set against indigenous lifestyle approaches used in the innovative Hawaiian lifestyle program at Keawanui Fishpond in Molokai. For further information: mercyritte@gmail.com; www.compasshealth.net

Title: “Keawanui: The Power of Vision” Guests include: Mercy and Ua Ritte (Native Hawaiians), Community Organizers; Jacqueline Jewel Esposa, RN Description: Native Hawaiians, Mercy and Ua Ritte, begin with a vision to restore an ancient fishpond on the island of Molokai. They end up transforming human lives through an innovative lifestyle program. From their journey gain inspiration and a vision to transform your own life, family, tribe, and region. For further information: mercyritte@gmail.com; www.newstart.com

Title: “Molokai Residential Lifestyle Program” Guests: Traceylin Crouch, RPT; Lani Mahelona, Massage Therapist; Michael Arce Description: A Native Hawaiian woman changes lives on the island of Molokai by offering a one-month lifestyle change program. Gain inspiration to help yourself, your family and your tribe from one of the Molokai program participants and two of the volunteer staff. For more info: HealingRainHawaii.com; transformelord@yahoo.com; drderose@compasshealth.net

Title: "Helping Veterans, Helping Communities" Guests: Aaron Spicer and Ben McClung Description: Learn the amazing story of how veterans who are struggling with PTSD and other health issues are finding help and healing by helping others. This inspiring interview also tells how these veterans are using solar-powered “EQUIProject” trailers to help in settings as diverse as Pow Wows and disaster relief. For more information contact: www.equiproject.org, aaron@equiproject.org or 812-585-9001

Title: “Improving Community Health” Guest: Patrick Anderson, JD; CEO, Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc. Description: From the venue of NCAI 2019, lawyer and Native leader, Patrick Anderson, returns to American Indian Living to discuss how First Nation individuals and communities can overcome toxic stress and truly thrive. For further information, contact: www.ruralcap.com

Title: “Addressing Special Needs in Indian Country” Guests: Steve Gillham, President, La Vida Mission; Nancy Crosby, Native Ministries Coordinator, Pacific Union; David Hall, Tribal Nations Training Coordinator, Center for Domestic Preparedness Description: Dr. DeRose welcomes three different guests who share practical insights into meeting special needs within Indian Country. Topics include: providing youth with culturally-appropriate educational options, extending dental services to underserved Native communities, and increasing the capacity of Native first responders to deal with major hazards. For further information: www.lavidamission.org or 505.786.5539 [Gillham]; pucnativeministries@gmail.com or 217.322.2516 [Crosby]; David.hall@fema.dhs.gov or 866-213-9548 [Hall]

Title: “Helping the Disadvantaged” Guests: J. Sweet (Chickasaw)-1 Family Services in Indian Country; R. Bourque (Muskogee Creek)-National Center for Victims of Crime; A. Charley (Laguna Pueblo)-Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women; & J. Calabaza (Santo Domingo Pueblo)-Trees, Water & People Description: This week’s show, recorded at the 2019 NCAI Convention in Albuquerque, NM, highlights four Native organizations that are reaching out to help the disadvantaged throughout Indian Country. For more info: www.1fsic.com, Tribalresourcetool.org, www.csvanw.org, treeswaterpeople.org

Title: “Rising Above Loss” (Encore) Guest: Karen Nichola, M.Ed., Grief Recovery Counsellor, Author: “Comfort for the Day” Description: Loss is a normal part of living. Whether it be the loss of a loved one, a job, one's independence, or a home, losses can overwhelm us—or we can rise above them. Karen Nicola shares secrets for rebounding from grief and loss, providing insights from her book, “Comfort for the Day.” For More Information: www.comfortfortheday.com

Title: “Weathering the Storm” Guests: Joni Bokovoy, DrPH (Cherokee) – Epidemiology Consultant; Louise Fode, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Anchorage Forecast Office Description: Just like meteorological crises, tribal health challenges can present unique challenges. Today’s show begins with practical examples of how the science of epidemiology can help tribal health concerns and concludes with segments from the National Weather Service discussing how to prepare for, and survive, nature’s challenges. For more info contact: www.Weather.gov; ready.Alaska.gov

Title: “Stretching Tribal Dollars” Guest: Tena Jolley, CEO of Apela Solutions in Stratford, OK Description: For a given budget, every tribe wants to maximize the benefits they provide their citizens. Tena Jolley shares insights from her years of work with the Chickasaw Nation, providing listeners with insights into how their tribes can stretch their dollars when it comes to health care and other human services. For Further Info: tena.jolley@apelasolutions.com or 580-320-7721

Title: “Tools for Life and Health” Guests: Hazel Beck, SoCal Veterans Business Outreach Center; Amanda McDonald, InBody Corporation Description: Have you ever thought about starting your own business? This week’s show opens with practical information and tools for small business startup, especially for Native American veterans and their families. The last two segments of this week’s show acquaint listeners with InBody, a company providing high tech body composition tools that can help tribes and individuals address diabetes, obesity, and more. For more information: Sba.gov/vboc; InBody.com

Title: “Education and Inspiration” Guests: Edwin Dysinger and Susan Cherne, Farm Stew; Yves Monnier, It Is Written Description: In this week’s show you’ll first learn how an online curriculum called “Farm Stew Basic,” developed for indigenous peoples in Africa, might be used in Indian Country. Next, you’ll gain inspiration in healthy living from Yves Monnier who used practical lifestyle principles to drop 80 pounds in about 12 months. For more information: FarmStew.org and ItIsWritten.tv or ItIsWritten.com

Title: “Recapturing Indigenous Educational Values” (Encore) Guests: Sarah Coleman, Student, & Hilde Barrera, Principal, Union Springs Academy; James Hartley, President, Lay Institute for Global Health Training (also Wildwood Health Institute); Alan Seiler, Organic Farmer Description: Sterile classrooms have become all too common in the 21st century. Today’s show connects you with individuals and institutions who are reconnecting people with Native values like natural remedies and learning lessons from the land. For more info: www.UnionSpringsAcademy.org (315-889-7314); www.wildwoodhealth.org

Title: “Transformations Among Indigenous Populations” Guests: Nancy and James Crosby; Michael Robinson, MD, Guam SDA Clinic; Jeremy O’Neal, MD, Nephrologist Description: Today’s guests share the transformative power of indigenous wisdom and modern science. You’ll learn how “worthless land” near the Navajo nation was turned into an award-winning garden; how First Nations peoples in Guam are transforming their health; how a specialist is using diet to help change the narrative about kidney failure; and much more. For more information: HR@AdventistClinic.com (Robinson); 217-322-2516 (Crosbys)

Title: “Skills for Rescue and Relief” Guests: Rick Young, Union College; Loren Fish, Holbrook Indian School; and Tom and Alane Waters, Restoration International Description: Rick Young begins this week’s show with a description of an innovative college degree in International Rescue and Relief. Dr. DeRose’s guests then discuss imparting skills to “rescue” other high-risk groups like Native youth from disadvantaged backgrounds and individuals in dysfunctional marriages. For further information: www.ucollege.edu/irr; Restoration-international.org; www.Holbrookindianschool.org or 928-524-6845.

Title: “Dealing with Desperate Diseases” Guests: Keith Schleifer, MD, and Joyce Choe, MD Description: Cancer and autoimmune diseases are among today’s most threatening diagnoses. Practicing physicians Drs. Keith Schleifer of Colorado and Joyce Choe of Washington share encouraging insights into natural therapies that may help with these conditions. For further information: www.Eden-valley.org or 970-669-7730 (Schleifer); www.Drjoycechoe.com